Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-14
CROW INDIANS KICK UP A FUSS.

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 I Medicine Man LeadA the Bucks on a ! Wild RumPus on the Agency-The Indians Hid Defiance to the Troops. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-The Secretary ot | the Interior late this afternoon received in- formation that the Indians on the Crow Creek and Lower Brule reservation in Dakota ] had by their threatened violence stopped the allotment surveys in progress on the reserva- tion and that further trouble is feared. Sec retary Lamar has had a consultation with General Sheridan, who leaves tomorrow for she West, and it is said steps will be imme- diately taken to meet the emergency and re- sume the work.
 Special Agent Howard to-day telegraphed to the Secretary of the Interior a report of the Indian disturbances at the Crow agency in Montana. He says that on the evening of September Both, while everything was peace ful and quiet about the agency and Agent Williams was sitting with his wife on the porch of his house, the young buck Medicine Man and some of his followers, all in war paint and we'll armed, rode through the agency and fired into the roofs of all the
 houses, particularly at the agents office on
 
 standing Medicine Man then put the gun he carried close to the interpreters stomach and slowly raised the gun and fired it over
 his head. He then came to the agents dwelling house on the west side and fired a volley at the roof ''The Indians were very defiant and insolent, and there was not the slightest provocation for it. There were none of the agents police near at hand at the time, but had there been they could not have arrested those fellows without much bloodshed and I believe, general massacre. I think the agent acted very wisely in not at tempting to arrest them with the police force."
 Two troops of cavalry arrived on the scene about 10 p. m. The Indians continued to make hostile demonstrations and sent word to the troops that they were ready for them, at the same time removing all their squaws, old men and children from their tepees to the opposite side of the river The Indians next went to the traders store and demanded ammunition and were refused. They then fired into the store and the trader, his wife and clerks had to barricade the windows with bales of blan- kets to protect themselves The gang kept up their shooting around the agency build ing. openly defying the troops nearly all yells. From the traders store they again came to the agents house having been rein forced by several followers and made more hostile demonstrations. On the porch of the house were the agency inspector and few friendly Indians when Boy-that Grabs, chief of the Indian police. reported to the inter preter that these fellows said they had come to kill the agent An Indian named Sort went out and took hold of Medicine
 Mans horse and told him it was cowardly to attack a man when he was in bed and that the first Indian This demonstration aroused the employees of the agency and several of them promptly came to the agents house armed with their guns, soon after which the officer in com mand of the troops placed guard around the agency buildings. The next morning
 two more troops ot cavalry arrived and for five or six hours this gang and some sixty or seventy followers stationed themselves on top of hill overlooking the agency and about 8 quarter of 8 mile from where the troops were camped and dared and defied them to come up there and take them (and they do so yet. }In the evening they dis appeared and have been planting the seeds of discord among the whole Crow tribe ever since and abusing all Grows as being old women because they will not join them to hght the whites. These Indians have not only stolen horses from the Piegans, but from | white settlers along their line of plundering
 Medicine Man, the leader of this bad ele- | ment, short time ago attended a sun dance | among the Northern Cheyennes and there
 endured such torture that he immediately
 became hero among his companions. He l was given his present name and is believed | by his followers to be impsrvious to the sword or bullets of the whites. He is natur-
 ally bad Indian, and has been quietly and
 gradually demoralizing the young Crow bucks ever since. If he and his followers
 are not arrested all the progress these Indians
 have made will be lost for years to come and
 the whole Crow nation completely demoral- ized The agent and his employees are quiet.
 Iy and cautiously attending to their usual duties, but on the outside all is demoraliza
 tion, Indians being gathered together in bands on different portions of the Little
 and Big Horn, having abandoned their farms and waiting to see what will be the result
 and anxiously fearing raids from the Piegans
 who are reported to be out In several bodies ! TheTe is one company of infantry here. Gen